06-19-2004, 06:00 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Application's Doing Hard Resets
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Originally Posted by dh
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Originally Posted by Pony99CA
Nope, applications can do hard resets. Check out Philippe Majerus' Task Manager, which is one application that claims it can hard reset your Pocket PC. I say "claims" because I haven't tried it, but you're welcome to let us know if it works. :-D |
Hmmm... that's interesting. I suppose a dodgy application could perform the same reset routine without the user knowing if you were really unlucky.
I hope the Task Manager app doesn't make it too easy to perform a hard reset if you really want a soft one. Now that would be annoying! |
The last time I checked, they were separate menu items, and I believe each displayed a message requiring the user to confirm the reset. (I stopped using it because the Kill Process part didn't seem to work on my iPAQ 3870.)
UPDATE: I just installed it to check again. A soft reset requires a Yes/No confirmation. A hard reset requires you to type in your Device Name. And I still can't kill a process on my iPAQ 5550.
My worry would be that somebody would create a Trojan Horse hard reset program. "Check out this neat new game!" "This program tweaks Pocket PCs to add an alarm time in Tasks!" Sounds great -- until you lose your data. :evil:
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